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Tribune News ServiceJalandhar, November 20The Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department today organised two awareness camps on wheat cultivation in Gol village of the Adampur block and Dhada Sanaura village in the Bhogpur block of the district. Over 150 farmers attended the camps in which the department sensitised them to sow wheat using the zero-tillage drill technique with the help of the super seeder machine. He said the cost of the machine was around Rs 2.15 lakh and 50 per cent subsidy was being offered to individual farmers and 80 per cent to farmers’ groups. Dr Nazar also asked the farmers to avail the benefit of wheat seed subsidy and said Rs 1,000 per quintal subsidy on wheat seed was being offered under the National Food Security Mission. Engineers Navdeep Singh, Bhagwant Singh Kalsi, Dr Kuljt Singh Saini, Dr Naresh Kumar Gulati were among others who addressed the farmers..